EXCLUSIVE – Build a Rocket Boy to Finish Publishing Partnership With IO Interactive on MindsEye

Insider Gaming has discovered that the builders behind MindsEye, Build a Rocket Boy, are planning to announce quickly that they’ve determined to half methods with their writer, IO Interactive.

According to sources near the approaching information, the choice is pushed by Build a Rocket Boy’s want to convey its publishing in-house and acquire extra management over its future. That consists of quicker decision-making, easier communication, and better management over the participant expertise.

As a part of the change, it’s stated that the upcoming MindsEye x Hitman crossover, which was introduced throughout 2025’s Summer Game Fest, will now not be happening. Instead, Build a Rocket Boy will proceed specializing in extra fixes and content material updates to construct out MindsEye.

It’s understood that the choice to half methods is Build a Rocket Boy’s, moderately than IO Interactive’s.

MindsEye launched on June 10, 2025, to horrible critic evaluations, with simply 6% of critics recommending the sport and receiving principally adverse to blended evaluations on Steam. Prior to the sport’s launch and simply a few weeks earlier, Mark Gerhard, the co-CEO of Build a Rocket Boy, took to Discord in a Q&A to assert that the adverse pre-release reception of MindsEye was a part of a paid marketing campaign by a 3rd occasion to make a “concerted effort to trash the game and the studio”.

Build a Rocket Boy remained primarily silent following the sport’s launch, as a substitute specializing in making an attempt to repair and enhance the sport. Co-CEO Leslie Benzies reportedly advised workers on a name one month following the sport’s launch that 300 builders have been liable to redundancy, saying the “studio and game’s struggles” have been attributable to “internal and external saboteurs”.

Insider Gaming has contacted IO Interactive for remark, however didn’t obtain one previous to publication. Should one be given, we are going to replace this report.

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